Warning - running *really* short on DMA buffers
>From what I read of the source this means that I could have potentially done
a larger request in one hit but ran out of DMA memory - harmless in terms of
safety, but potentially damaging to performance.
Also, just once while I was trying to do some other stuff as well while doing
these large copies, I got
scsi0 : DANGER : abort_connected() called
which sounds rather more serious. However, the resulting copy was identical
with the source image so it didn't appear to cause any damage.
Should the first message appear at the default debug level, or should it be
relegated to, say, info or debug status? And what does the DANGER message
actually mean?
Oh, this is using the 53c7,8xx driver (Drew's, not the BSD one) on a standard
810 board, with one drive being a Quantum Fireball and the other (the target
when the DANGER message appeared) being an old Seagate ST41650 (which is a full
height 5.25" drive from 1992, which still manages 2.6MB/s sustained). I did
not have 10MHz mode enabled (lots of external cables). Doing anything at all
on the system while the copy was running seemed to provoke lots of the Warning
messages, which probably makes sense (more outstanding commands etc).
Just my 2 cents - this is a stable kernel and we don't want to alarm the
punters too much now do we :-)
David